The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

I believe there are no wrong decisions, just different consequences.

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.

Whatever thing the mind can imagine, the eyes can see, the hands will soon handle.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

If someone were to say, 'Well, what would you have done differently?' I'd say, 'Nothing'. I think you need to make mistakes.

Having a great marriage isn't rocket science. It's simply a choice.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.